* January – The Assize of Northampton is enacted.

::* Assize of Northampton, additional legal measures taken by Henry II of England

The Assize of Northampton, largely based on the Assize of Clarendon of 1166, is among a series of measures taken by King Henry II of England that solidified the rights of the knightly tenants and made all possession of land subject to and guaranteed by royal law.

Henry II also introduced what is now known as the " grand jury " through his Assize of Clarendon.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

The Assize of Arms of 1252, which required the appointment of constables to summon men to arms, quell breaches of the peace, and to deliver offenders to the sheriffs or reeves, is cited as one of the earliest creation of the English police.

* The Assize of Clarendon is enacted in England.

Angoulême is the seat of a bishop, a prefect, and an Assize court.

This is partly because until 1835 Lancaster Castle was the only Assize Court in the entire county and covered rapidly growing industrial centres including Manchester and Liverpool.

Keble's feast day is kept on 14 July ( the anniversary of his Assize Sermon ) in the Church of England, and on 29 March ( the anniversary of his death ) elsewhere in the Anglican Communion.

The term is believed to have originated in the 19th century, and is possibly derived from the Home Circuit of the itinerant Assize Court.

His last work, from a design by Bunbury, is entitled Interior of a Barber's Shop in Assize Time, and is dated 1811.

The first mention of the name Pensans is in the Assize Roll of 1284, and the first mention of the actual church that gave Penzance its name, is from a manuscript written by William Borlase in 1750:

The Crown Court is a permanent unitary court across England and Wales, whereas the Assizes were periodic local courts heard before judges of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, who travelled across the seven circuits into which England and Wales were divided, assembling juries in the Assize Towns and hearing cases.

At the western end of the castle is an ivy clad building built in 1826 as the Assize courts.

Adam Hepburn of Dunsyre is one of the several illustrious jurors on an Assize, 5 March 1470 / 1, which acquitted Andrew Ker of Cessford of aiding and abetting James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Angus " traitor from England within Scotland ", for his association with Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd after he was declared a rebel, and other accusations, all of which Ker had denied.

" This ordinance is usually known as the Assize of Measures or the Assize of Cloth.

* killed the Chancellor, Treasurer ( this office is now in commission ), one of the King's Justices ( either of the King's Bench or the Common Pleas ), a Justice in Eyre, an Assize judge, and " all other Justices ," while they are performing their offices.

The Black Assize is a name given to multiple deaths in the city of Oxford in England between July 6 and August 12, 1577.

Coat of arms of the kingdom of Jerusalem. The Assise sur la ligece ( roughly, " Assize on liege-homage ") is an important piece of legislation passed by the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, the feudal court of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, in an unknown year, but probably in the 1170s under Amalric I of Jerusalem.

The English royal castles also became used as gaols – the Assize of Clarendon in 1166 insisted that royal sheriffs establish their own gaols and, in the coming years, county gaols were placed in all the shrieval royal castles.

In 1833 his famous Assize Sermon on " national apostasy " gave the first impulse to the Oxford Movement, also known as the Tractarian movement.

Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 – 1916 ) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures ( also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris ), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies " troni ponderacionem "— which the Public Record Commissioners translates as " troy weight ".

Henry II also instituted the Assize of Clarendon in 1166, which allowed for jury trials and reduced the number of trials by combat.

The Court of Assize (, also called a Court of Sessions ) sits in each of the departments of France with original and appellate jurisdiction over, or serious felonies.

Then, when Bertulus had decided to send Esterhazy and his mistress before the Assize Court, the Chambre des Mises en Accusation interfered and gave them the benefit of insufficient evidence ( August 12 ), and also declared that the complicity of Du Paty had not been sufficiently proved.

The first instance of a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of Henry II of England.

In May 1747 Hopkins was first appointed as a Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court, whose long title was the " Superior Court of Judicature, Court Of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery.

In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the English Angevin King Henry II, the law of the land required that: " anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid jury, to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water.

It was " an exceptionally early work ", designed before his first major commission, the Manchester Assize Courts.

In 1957, she was the first woman to sit as a Commissioner of Assize.

Water Orton was first documented in an Assize Roll of 1262 as ' Overton ' which means farm by the bank or edge.

Article 35 of Magna Carta re-enacted the Assize of Cloth, and in the reign of Edward I an official called an " alnager " was appointed to enforce it.

But on 18 November 1991, after thirteen years of legal proceedings, the Paris Assize Court acquitted him of the fatal wounding and unintentional homicide charges, finding him guilty only of unauthorised possession of an M1 Garand rifle.

Since 2001, Assize court rulings may be appealed on points of fact to a Court of Assizes in another county, vested by the Court, and before a larger jury.

As the central courts only sat for three months of the year, the rest of his time was spent on Assize when his work at All Souls permitted.

In 1999, the six Libyans were put on trial in the Paris Assize Court for the bombing of UTA Flight 772.

The local architect John Carr then built the Assize Courts on the site of the old Jury House between 1773 and 1777 on the west side, and oversaw the replacement of the Sessions House and Common Hall by the Female Prison between 1780 and 1783 on the east side.

For several weeks in 1943, he sat in the Court of Appeal before departing on an Assize visit.

Assize courts were held in the hall around 1605, and John Wesley preached from a pulpit stone on the open ground floor in 1748.

He appears to have been recorder of Coventry in 1450 ; he was made Escheator of Worcestershire, and in 1447 / 8 was under-sheriff of the same county ; he became sergeant-at-law in 1453 and was afterwards a Justice of Assize on the northern circuit.

The foundation stone of this building had been laid on the 28 June 1838, but, Elmes being successful in a competition for the Assize Courts in the same city, it was finally decided to include the hall and courts in a single building.

At Taunton Assize Court, on 17 October 1951, Straffen stood trial for murder before Mr Justice Oliver.

The Manchester Assize Courts were law courts once located on Great Ducie Street in Strangeways, Manchester in England.

After Wallace-Johnson accepted this offer, the governor went back on his word and had the political activist placed on trial in front of the Assize Court.

In 1581 he was appointed Justice of Assize on the Norfolk circuit and tried Edmund Campion and others in November 1581, securing an unexpected conviction.

Soon afterwards he was commissioned to act as Justice of Assize on the western circuit, becoming in 1513 judge of the Court of Common Pleas.